sons (.ff.). God told Aaron to meet Moses, and Moses told Aaron of God’s miracles and what He had said (.f.). Moses and Aaron assembled the Israelite elders (.). “Aaron spoke all the words that the Lord had spoken to Moses, and performed the signs in the sight of the people” (.). The people believed (.). Moses and Aaron went to Pharaoh and told him God wanted them to celebrate a festival in the wilderness (.ff.). But Pharaoh answered: “Moses and Aaron, why are you taking the people away from their work? Get to your labors” (.). Note that Moses and Aaron are treated as equals before Pharaoh. Pharaoh increased the work load of the Israelites who blamed Moses and Aaron (.ff.). God spoke to Moses, promising freedom (. ff). “Moses told this to the Israelites: but they would not listen to Moses, because of their broken spirit and their cruel slavery” (.). God told Moses to tell Pharaoh to let the people go, but Moses protested that Pharaoh would not listen because he was a poor speaker (.ff.). God then gave Moses and Aaron His orders (.). We are again told that God ordered Moses and Aaron to bring the people out of Egypt (.), and they spoke again to Pharaoh (.). God spoke again to Moses who again protested he was a poor speaker, and that Pharaoh would not listen. God said “See I have made you like God to Pharaoh, and your brother Aaron shall be your prophet. You shall speak all that I command you, and your brother Aaron shall tell Pharaoh to let the Israelites go out of his land.” (.f). Then comes the biblical treatment of the ten plagues inflicted upon Pharaoh by God for failing to let the Israelites leave (.-.). stay in Midian he had spent his whole life in Egypt; (2) After his childhood Moses was treated as a son by an Egyptian princess (2.10). (3) In Midian the daughters of Jethro thought he was an Egyptian (2.19). (4) Aaron would have the same problem with speech; (5) Pharoah is reported as speaking Hebrew. Another late version is that as a child Moses burned his tongue with a coal of fire; for sources see Louis Ginsberg. The Legends of the Jews 2 (Philadelphia, 1923), pp. 272 ff.
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